Radio Times, August 7th, 1925. DAVENTRY PROGRAMMES: SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT. — Ee Ta = f se a. RELA i! =e Park wig? aa, ra fconeuce” Ci ae fait * Chace daee] ema Le wey ara atl as - ad A LEC OS reo A i Lee eL ibaa ee ShaeEST a5rnieio [itceny _=eT eo Serre naa ‘ =:2 pe | ‘DIOrag Oaroe LOMODA, SoUseo = eeeee- eS= ele a eee "Vol.8. No. 98. PO,Dasna aa-Newspspor.Movepepenl _EVERY FRIDAY. TwoBae ————— ——— OFFICIAL_ Radio nd.“the Crook. = PROGRAMMES By Sir BASIL THOMSON, K.C.B. for the week commencing This article, by the former Chief of Scotland excuse for farther SUNDAY, August 9th. Yard, raises some important points in connection acquaintance. with broadcasting police news, Under its licence, the B.B.C. is obliged to broadcast Eachof themdias all announcements required by Government an assortment of-~ MAIN STATIONS. Departments. Police notices are few and- for names ‘and’“ra- LONDON, CARDIFF, ABERDEEN, GLAS- between ; but some Inteners have objected tionalities, with MANCHESTER, to their introduction into the programmes on GOW, BIRMINGHAM, the ground that they prejudice artistic unity and passports to BOURNEMOUTH, NEWCASTLE, spoil otherwise good entertainment. While match them, and BELFAST. anxious to avoid any interference with its pro- each is ready to grammes, the B.B.C. feels that it can render an Hit over the HIGH-POWER STATION, aiditional service to the community by assist- ing in the detection of criminals, nearest frontier (Daventry ) at five minntes’ NE of the three sections of the RELAY STATIONS, notice on the International Prison Congress held SHEFFIELD, PLYMOUTH, EDINBURGH, completion of a im London recently was devoted to the successful conf, LIVERPOOL, LEEDS—BRADFORD, question of the imtermational criminal, Gir BASIL THOMSON, HULL, NOTTINGHAM, STOKE-ON. or a hint of sns- who has become a problem in every picion on the part of the police. TRENT, DUNDEE, SWANSEA, European country, especially on the bd 7 = = Continent. He loomed before the war; But not together: from that moment SPECIAL CONTENTS. he suffered a temporary eclipse during they are strangers, and if they are con- hostilities, and for a year or two after strained by the urgencyof the case to cross RADIO AND THE MULTITUDE. the Armistice, on account of the stringency the samefrontier by the sametrain,it is in By Fr. P. Eckersley, of the passport regulations ; but, having different compartments and with a new now specialized in the art of fabricating set of names to mateh one of the passports WRITER OF TWO THOUSAND SONGS. false papers, he has come into his own which they carry in reserve. It is a lite By A. B. Cooper. arain, and “his own” are the Jaw- of adventure that must be great fun until abiding in all countries, the inevitable end, when some mis- SUMMER'S SUN TO MAKE YOU WELL. * * * i adventure lands themin a foreign prison, By Dr. C. W. Saleeby. * wh # ‘acai Whether he is confidence man, or One of the facts brought to neat the OFFICIAL NEWS AND VIEWS. professional gambler, or pickpocket, or luggage thief, depends upon the season Congress by a foreign police officer wag or the. circumstances, The essential is the dificulty of identification and the WILL HEAR THIS WEEK. PEOPLE YOU that there should be a small gang, of fatal delay in passing on the information ——— th whom the individuals appear to be un- to the police ef the neighbouring States. IMPORTANT TO READERS, known to one another, and of whom one Let us assumethat a gang in Switzerland Tek ndieees ofl "The RedisTie © ie 11, Sontbamepten or more has the gitt of tongues, They are has just succeeded in obtaming valuable Street, Strand, Loadon, Wed. persons of ingratiating manners, con- jewellery by a trick, and that the victim {Ponsidrea of the BritikhoeBroadcasteee Caee Lil, vincing in argument andretiring in habit, of the fraud goes to the police an hour too late. The police take down a deserip- BATES OF SUBSCRIPTION te “The Badio Tires * ever ready to do some trifling service for aieee (Foreiga), 155, bd. ; a fellow-traveller which will give them an (Continued overleaf in column 3.) 1 wont?ape.Se ae — RADIO EATOUAT = A. ise Poetry For The Plain Radio and he Crook, (Continued from the previous page.) tion of the men, only to find that they loft A Suggestion to the Programme Builders. their hotels that very motune. hey are ANY who know nothing of poctry, past amith, who, from the murk and clangoar of the traced to the railway station, where men re. sembling the description took the. train to or present, who have read no verse factory, cought the fragrance of fo wers and the Pars. It ia not enough to telegraph their sine they lett school, would find their interest mask of birds: description to Parts, for at any point in the awakened if they listened to some of the best “Come into the woods, the wild birds are poetry read aloud by a poet, journey they may have left the train and Ringe, doubled back into Bélgium, or Germany, of There are many more willing to listen to The white hawthorn’. toonts wait inte Austria, and to send lengthy descriptive tele- peetry than there are those willing to read it the winal, grams to the pohce of twenty-four countrics for themselves, ‘The unmusical can get much The skylark is up and the ewcet bells are on the chance would entail a waste of public plensure through hearing. good music, The Firing, money, besides n gradual weakening of polion min with no poetry in hie make-up cannot, by Loung Pleasures before onl old Borrow Vitilance when acanunber of such telegrams has remling alone, obtain equal enjoyment, One bontril, might as well expect the unmusical to interpret been found to lead to not hbo. from the old notation, And there: jr omer “ Founded on the Heart of Men.” a ii « ie ‘Les, a talk about our * peasant poets,” out- birriers between the artist and the Phili«tine The police officer T have Apoken cf prrvspriessoe] lining their life-storics and quoting the best of in poetry than there are in music; they are, an ioterreational register lapsecl 1 ison the finger: perhaps, noleo obvious. The feet that vou can their thoughts, might help to stimulate the intercat 6f some who are * not kee on poetry.” path eyetem, to which every nation would real prose no more implics that you can read contribute information, Other speakers advo Southey's “ Uneducated Poets” conkl be taken poetry with understanding than the fact that cAtel an-Interational Bureau which would he you sing in your bath means that rou can as the introductory “talking point.” Then, having dealt with John Jones—that sdmirablo reeponsible for circulating descriptions of only interpret Wagner, thie TAT dangerous CAE wel f hoat Whenever bother if somewhatmnepne opoek; Etephen a cake tecure-of the nature described above, No “ Reciters,” Please ! Duck, farm workec; Jomes Woodhouse, ehoe- all the Swiss paliee would hare to do would John Drinkwater writes, in “The Muse in maker: and the others, our guide would lead he fe telegraph tothe nel h boring roid cy thie Council,” thet “te value poetry for its message va to Burns and Clarn—peasants both—and so nimber given in the register to the persons whe of the nature of ita plilosophie content in to to the others, Thus might we leatn: that moet resemble the description and ask for their manndersiniul its very nature.’ The poet's poetry Heed not bese far nemoved: from ow provisional arrest. statement can be oppliced to the. foresoing workaday lives as mony of ta imaging; that = * + * Argument, it cain prove a very sevticl peop in times of soul- No speaker suggteted what seems to me te be His the feeling that we are ontraine! and ill wearipess, We ehoukl begin to realive the A fir more speedy means of conveying the wiern equipped technically for the right underatanding truth of Garon Bottoms Lie grand tines :— ing—namely, the wireless, There will, douk tlie, al poctry that Keeps so many of ua away from Poet ris froombed an the hearts of men... the pocts. A few impatient attempts have come a time when the Uentral Police Oifice ref , wears and tides ancl leagues ood oll thei every country will be in communication with proved ta. we that we to. nal pet the same billows ita eub-offiecs by, wireless of special wave saticfaction from the reading of poetry aa we Can ‘alter not mans knowledge of men’s letgth: but before that ean be adapted tir obtain from prot ond so owe have taken refuge hirarte— heneeforth, whenever the subject has tome wp, Intermational police messages, ih ought to be While troce ancl rocks and clouds inclode pesethle to mohilive the browdeasting latins behind the abrupt assertion that we ore “not our beiag Mf all rations to the extent of repenting &.0.8, keen on poetry.” We knowthe epics. of Atlantis still,” The BRC. tan do good work here: they niessaees from the police whieh would be picker Up in_every police station im the country. Such can prove do those *to whom “net being (Continued from column 3.) meenges would have no clement of eecreey; keen on poetry has become. a. habit that let us aay, in Paris, France at once becomes there ire times when the widest publicity is of reading portry for oneself aml listening toit an unhealthy country, Every hotel porter, great service to the police. The more people being read by an artiet—aox it should be read— every café waiter whose plance appeare to ine pout upon their gusrd pgainet an inter ore na cifterent as the vamping of the amoking linger over hie features, fills him with sharm.